Gandhi’s correspondence with Sarla Devi reveals the complexity of the Mahatma’s intellectual, political, and intimate connections with one of the age’s most impressive women.
The second volume of Manu Gandhi’s diaries chronicles a turbulent time. Living with Gandhi in Noakhali in 1946 and travelling with him, she emerges as a confident caretaker, a person with opinions,…
‘Gandhi’s Places’ introduces us to the places Gandhi is associated with, the built environments he inhabited & engendered. This review looks at the manner of this introduction, the choices made…
The correspondence between MK Gandhi and Nilla Cram Cook, an American follower of Gandhi in the 1930s, compiled and edited meticulously, serves the immensely valuable purpose of historicising a…
Gandhi’s thinking on caste must be frameworked within his opposition to capitalist modernity and its destructive effects on the peasant. His ambivalences on caste owe to his efforts to integrate his…
Exactly a 100 years ago, Gandhi was sentenced by a court for ‘sedition’. Its memory makes us revisit the Non-Cooperation Movement, which introduced mass politics into India.
A curated set of 25 articles published in "The India Forum" during the past year that described, discussed and critiqued the many important events that took place in India in 2019, a…
Even radical dissenters have experimented within some boundaries. Gandhi played with boundaries themselves in nearly every domain of life — politics, sexuality, culture, knowledge. He was uniquely a…
Was Gandhi a Mahatma or a mass leader who was political strategist par excellence? Or is it wrong to even think in terms of such a dichotomy? Reflections on understanding a remarkable personality.
